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Quotes About Mail

I used to get a lot of fan mail.
~ Wilson Pickett
I still get fan mail for Columbo.
~ Peter Falk
Well, we get a lot of fan mail and it gets sent to the office - so we never see it for ages, and then we have one day of going through it all.
~ Perrie Edwards
The private soldiers of France were not well treated during the Great War; compared with their lot, the soldiers of the other armies on the Western Front were blessed with good food, reliable mail, adequate pay, frequent reliefs and regular leave.
~ Robin Neillands
to transfer her rage after all. She wanted David Price dead. And then, for the first time, she truly understood Griffin. And then, for the first time, she had an inkling of an idea. The front door opened and shut. Laurie, who had gone out to get the mail, walked into the family room, sifting through the pile. She came
~ Lisa Gardner
What if people really did that - sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would it be that they sent? A box of chocolates with centers like the yolks of turkey eggs. A mud doll with hollow eye sockets. A heap of roses slightly more fragrant than rotten. A package wrapped in bloody newspaper that nobody would want to open.
~ Alice Munro
What if people really did that--sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would it be that they sent? A box of chocolates with centers like the yolks of turkeys' eggs. A mud doll with hollow eye sockets. A heap of roses slightly more fragrant than rotten. A package wrapped in bloody newspaper that nobody would want to open.)
~ Alice Munro
What dogs rip the mail every morning? Tear-riers!
~ Joe King
office inaugurated Rural Free Delivery in 1896, which promised home mail service on roads passable enough to permit it—a mighty popular idea among rural farmers, who until then had viewed good roads and the taxes they required as schemes favoring big-city dandies on their bikes.
~ Earl Swift
the top of a batch of envelopes and
~ Edgar Wallace
Mutti, what goes around the world but stays in a corner?" "I don't know, Max." "A postage stamp.
~ Anthony Doerr
Parisian cousins nobody has heard from in decades now write letters begging for capons, hams, hens. The dentist is selling wine through the mail.
~ Anthony Doerr
Protecting the USPS means protecting the essential services it provides our nation.
~ Lucy McBath
If the day gets really bad, I can always pull out fan mail. Who else gets mail where kids write to you and say, 'Dear Mr. Scieszka, we were supposed to write to our favorite author, but Roald Dahl is dead. So I'm writing to you.'
~ Jon Scieszka
At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.
~ Dennis Ritchie
And I did Batman, too. I did Mr. Freeze. I get more mail for him than anything I've ever done.
~ Eli Wallach
A real thank you does not come by e-mail. They come in the mail in an envelope. And what comes out of an envelope is a beautiful thing to touch and to handle and to pass around for everyone to read.
~ Letitia Baldrige
I heard your looking for your sis. My cousin lives in the Cities. She saw her and wrote to you—with her L hand because she broke her R finger pointing out my faults. That's Genevieve for you. Watch the mail.
~ Louise Erdrich
Recycle the mail, don't read it, don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience or what pulls down or what strikes at or what shatters this ruse you call necessity.
~ Louise Erdrich
She has driven into town to get the mail. He had no intention of taking you anywhere but to your bed. He is a dog," he growled, and then glared at Dave and added, "Although that seems to me to be an insult to Bailey and her kind. She would never behave in so unsavory a manner.
~ Lynsay Sands
I just love checking our mailbox. There is something about getting mail that is exciting. Going out to the box each afternoon is sometimes the highlight of my day.
~ Ann M. Martin
I'm not really the scented envelope kid of girl, preferring instead to send yellow Jiffy-lite mailers packed with whatever song is on my mind.
~ Sarah Vowell
Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there
~ Scott Adams
Each year, in my quaint efforts to send out paper holiday cards with personal messages, I probably discard one for every three I actually manage to put in the mail. The reason is that my handwriting is now less legible than it was when I was in the second grade.
~ Meghan Daum